Hospice means a model of care that focuses on relieving symptoms and supporting patients with a life expec- tancy of six months or less. Hospice involves an interdisci- plinary approach to provide health care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support. The emphasis is on com- fort, quality of life and patient and family support. Hospice can be provided in the patient's home as well as freestanding hospice facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, or other long- term care facilities.

Hospice means an establishment licensed by the state where it is located that furnishes a centrally administered program of palliative and supportive services. Such services are provided by a team of healthcare Providers and directed by a Physician. Services include physical, psychological, custodial and spiritual care for patients who are terminally ill and their families. For the purposes of this benefit only, "family" includes the immediate family, the person who primarily cared for the patient and other persons with significant personal ties to the patient, whether or not related by blood.

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NOTE2: For OP, HHA, Hospice and all Carrier claims, data was populated beginning with NCH weekly process date 10/3/97.
No, DMAVA does not anticipate issuing an RFP for Hospice services.
The PMP is not useful in Hospice Care, where patients have a life expectancy of less than 6 months and often have terrible pain, regardless of their previous experiences with controlled substances.The PMP tells us nothing about the family members or caregivers of the patient who are the focus of this bill in preventing accidental overdoses.
Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hospice of Michigan and served on the Board of Directors of the Merrill Palmer Institute and the Board of Metropolitan Affairs Coalition.
Hillingdon Carers is a network member of the Carers Trust.Hillingdon Carers has worked closely with local charities Age UK Hillingdon, Disablement Association Hillingdon (DASH), Hillingdon Mind and Harlington Hospice in the development of a new Community Interest Company limited by guarantee named H4All.

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Hospice means a health care program that provides a coordinated set of services rendered at home or in outpatient or institutional settings for individuals suffering from a disease or condition with a terminal prognosis.

Hospice means a health care program providing a coordinated set of services rendered at home, in Outpatient settings or in institutional settings for Covered Persons suffering from a condition that has a terminal prognosis. A Hospice must have an interdisciplinary group of personnel which includes at least one Physician and one Registered Nurse (R.N.), and it must maintain central clinical records on all patients. A Hospice must meet the standards of the National Hospice Organization (NHO) and applicable state licensing requirements.

Hospice means a centrally administered, nonprofit or

Hospice means a model of care that focuses on relieving symptoms and supporting patients with a life expectancy of six months or less.

Hospice means a centrally administered, nonprofit or profit, medically directed, nurse-coordinated program which provides a continuum of home and inpatient care for the terminally ill patient and the patient's family. Such term shall also include a centrally administered, nonprofit or profit, medically directed, nurse-coordinated program if such program is licensed pursuant to the provisions of this act. A hospice program offers palliative and supportive care to meet the special needs arising out of the physical, emotional and spiritual stresses which are experienced during the final stages of illness and during dying and bereavement. This care is available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, and is provided on the basis of need, regardless of ability to pay. "Class A" Hospice refers to Medicare certified hospices. "Class B" refers to all other providers of hospice services;

Hospice means a coordinated program of home, outpatient and inpatient care under the direction of an identifiable hospice administration providing palliative and supportive medical and other health services to terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice is an option for care which utilizes a medically directed interdisciplinary team, which may also include services provided by trained volunteers. A hospice program provides care to meet the physical, psychological, social, spiritual and other special needs which are experienced during the final stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement. Hospice care shall be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Hospice means a building or portion of a mixed-use building designed and intended to provide palliative care and emotional support to the terminally ill in a home or homelike setting so that quality of life is maintained, and family members may be active participants in care.